One of my wild collected crabapples is growing apples--lots of them.
Dozens. It's been four years since I collected it, and this is the
first year that it flowered. I've got apple trees in the yard so I am
assuming that the bees pollenated it from them.

Anyway, I'm wondering if I should cut them off now before they develop
much more and weaken the tree. Right now they're less than 1/4" in
diameter. The tree is still in development--I'm growing a new apex
which is healing over the trunk chop very well, and I'm afraid that if
I allow the fruit to grow it might detract from this process. Any
thoughts?






I have 2 crabapples that I collected over 10 years ago. The trunks on each
are about 3" . 2 years ago I finally got flowers and fruit on one of them.
Last year I had a few apples as well. This year the tree is awesome. It had
loads of flowers and 100s of fruit developed. The tree was in a greenhouse when
it flowered and developed fruit so it pollinated on its own. matter of fact
I have to remove some fruit, because I don't think the tree can handle that
many. Each cluster has 5-7 fruit
My other tree I cut back the branches last year. Now I plan to train it as
a cascade. It has never had flowers. I think once it will finally have
flowers next year. I used super phosphate in the fall on the one that flowered.

SteveW

Long Island NY





************************************************** ******************************
++++Sponsored, in part, by Kevin Bailey++++
************************************************** ******************************
-- The IBC HOME PAGE & FAQ: http://www.internetbonsaiclub.org/ --
+++++ Questions? Help? e-mail +++++